You Are More Than What Happened to You

What happens to your sense of self after trauma? For many survivors of sexual assault, the hardest part is not the immediate crisis. It is the quiet question that shows up later: Who am I now? In this first post of the Still Standing series, we are getting honest about how trauma reshapes identity, why you are not defined by what happened to you, and how to start reclaiming the parts of yourself that were never truly gone. This is for the woman who is somewhere in the middle of healing and needs a reminder that she is still standing, and that her story is far bigger than her worst chapter.